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This comprehensive program, led by a SHRM-certified HR practitioner, will help prepare you to earn your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification. You will experience a detailed review of the current SHRM Body of Applied Skills & Knowledge™ (SHRM BASK™). During your learning experience, your expert facilitator will build upon the foundation you've already established through your studies, guiding you through interactive discussions, sample test questions and periodic progress checks. You will be able to identify your areas of strength and build on them, and pinpoint areas where you need further concentrated study in preparation for either exam. Your dynamic classroom experience, along with your in-depth study of the SHRM Learning System, will help ensure that you're well-prepared and confident on exam day.

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"SHRM does their best to set you up for success! There are so many resources and the instructor was excellent! The instructor gave us so many great tips for succeeding on the exam and had an interactive style of teaching that kept us engaged and thinking throughout the class.

 

Throughout the class the instructor reflected on our pretest scores to help us identify where she needed to focus her time [during the seminar]. The pretest also helped me identify where I need to spend time studying independently.

 

I feel infinitely more confident in the probability of succeeding on the SHRM-SCP exam and sincerely enjoyed my 3 days of learning with the teacher!"

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Youngwilliams PC

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